Colonists do not mine

[LeaDadada]

Hello everyone

I bought RimWorld a couple of days ago and now i have a problem. I marked some steel-tiles to be mined. But my colonists never do it. When i manually command them to mine it, they only do it for a few seconds before they do something else again. What do i do wrong?

[GiantSpaceHamster]

Take a look at your "Work" tab along the bottom of the screen. This allows you to enable and disable jobs for each colonist. It also allows you to set priorities if you toggle the checkbox in the upper left of the work screen. Note that when individual priorities are disabled, or when enabled and two jobs have the same priority, the job farthest left in the table takes priority.

It's likely that your colonists have other jobs enabled/prioritized and they are simply never getting around to mining. Basically, you're tasking out too much for your colonists to do without properly managing which ones will do what.

Take a look over that screen in more detail and if you have additional questions let us know!